Su Miao looked at Xiao Bai's somewhat angry appearance, and laughed so much that her waist bent. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Song Chen saw that Su Miao was laughing so forgetfully, and quickly pulled her hand tighter, lest she accidentally plant it in the vegetable field, although the vegetable field is high and there is no muddy water, but if this mud is touched head-on, it will be enough to choke.

Su Miao laughed enough, and then pointed at Xiaobai, who looked innocent and helpless: "So you can swim?" Why don't you go back and find someone to wash up? ”

Xiaobai suffered this unwarranted disaster for no reason, and deeply felt that if he stayed in this place any longer, he didn't know what would be waiting for him, plus he had just shaken off the water on his body, which would have been poured by the rain again, which made it extremely disliked by the dry, so as soon as Su Miao's words came out, it immediately ran into the Zhuangzi.

After letting Xiaobai go back, Su Miao and Song Chen stopped at the vegetable field for a while, and when they were discussing what they wanted to eat in the afternoon, Song Chen suddenly wanted to eat roasted eggplant, so Su Miao pulled him to pick: "Pick a few more, in addition to the delicious roast, you can also let Aunt Shi use it to stew the dried rabbit......"

Song Chen thought about the deliciousness of the braised rabbit meat and stewed eggplant, and picked a few more: "Then cook more, is the rabbit enough?" Do you need to go into the mountains again in these two days to fight some? ”

"There should be a lot more...... Su Miao said uncertainly, when there was not so much work in the field before, Kuai Yong and the others took turns to take Xiaobai into the mountain every day, and each time the harvest was very large, and in the afternoon, two or three people would go to the foot of the mountain to pick them up before they could carry it back. In addition to rabbits, there are also deer, pheasants, roe deer, etc., except for a small part that is freshly cooked, and the rest is made by Lukfook to be dried and preserved in case of emergency. These air-dried meats were all kept in a special area of grain, and they would not use them except for the occasional thought of eating a specified dish to use.

"Yes. Hunters should not go up the mountain on this rainy day, just leave some time for the animals in the mountain to recuperate. Song Chen nodded, put all the picked eggplants into the basket that Su Miao brought out, carried the basket in one hand, pulled Su Miao in the other, and went back with Shi Shiran.

As soon as they landed on the verandah of Song Chen's courtyard, they saw Xiaobai, who had just taken a bath, took great care of his hair, and asked the little guy who bathed him to send it back with an umbrella.

Song Chen beckoned, asked the little maid to come closer, handed him the basket in his hand, and asked the other party to send it to the kitchen for Aunt Shi to make the dish he and Su Miao had discussed.

Song Chen and Su Miao returned to the house, and as soon as they washed their hands and faces, Xiaobai paced over, rubbing Su Miao's skirt with his furry head regardless of his previous suspicions to show friendship. The water on its body has been shaken off by it after taking a bath, plus its own warm body temperature, but there will still be a little wetness on the hair tips, Su Miao reached out and realized it, and immediately took a big cotton towel to cover it and wiped it again.

Song Chen sat on the table next to him and drank tea, listening to the rain outside the window, looking at the scene of Su Miao and Xiaobai wiping the fur and playing indoors, he only felt that the time was wonderful and intoxicating. Song Chen was about to call Xiaobai over and let Su Miao rest for a while, when he saw it suddenly jump, rushed to the door, and looked up at something-

In the verandah outside the door, a light gray carrier pigeon flew, it stopped on the eaves, tilted its head and looked around, and saw the person in the window, as soon as Su Miao stretched out her hand to it, it flew into her palm that was spread out.

Song Chen walked over and untied the small tube on the carrier pigeon, this kind of carrier pigeon was not the kind of white used for communication between them and Lin Jin and Song Henghuan. Song Chen picked up the small tube and looked at it, it was made of silver sheets, and there was an inconspicuous bluegrass pattern at the bottom of the tube, and Song Chen recognized it at a glance: "It's the prince's mark." ”

"Prince?" Su Miao put the gray pigeon into the carrier pigeon cage and came over curiously, "Why did he write at this time?" ”

Song Chen quickly poured down the letter inside and displayed it, with a large number of words sprinkled with it, but he could read the content of the letter at a glance and after a few glances: "The prince said that it has not rained in the whole of Lanbei for two months, the reservoir has been dried up, there is no water to be transported to the wheat field, and wheat and other crops are about to die of drought......

"It's so bad." Although they had been mentally prepared for the disaster in advance, and Lin Jin and Song Chen had also explained the consequences that might result from the abnormal situation of snow at the beginning of the year, when it really happened, Su Miao still felt a little beyond imagination. But if you think about it carefully, the rain here in Lannan can have been able to rain for more than a month, and it is not impossible for the situation of two months of drought in Lanbei to happen.

"It's a similar situation in the west, and it hasn't rained for a month or so." Song Chen put the letter away, "However, the prince said that fortunately, at the beginning of the year, our father reminded the emperor that there are reserves of disaster relief food in the official offices in various places, and there are snow-capped mountains in the west and north...... Although it is only a drop in the bucket, the harvest in the field can be guaranteed as much as possible! ”

"Is it feasible to go to the snowy mountains to get snow? If you're not careful, you'll get an avalanche! Su Miao was skeptical about this method, don't wait until the water doesn't attract much, but kills.

"They will only move near the snow line, not too high." Song Chen explained, "And the west hasn't come to this point yet, and there is still some water in the river over there, which is estimated to be able to support until the wheat harvest." The snow-capped mountains in the north are too high and far away to be carried down by manpower. If you dig a stream and lead it down the mountain after melting, it is estimated that the land along the way will be sucked away. ”

"Well, if only the water from the south could be brought to the north." Su Miao sighed with emotion, half of the places were dry and the other places were flooded, and Song Hengyuan was going to die of a headache.

"The emperor has accumulated a thick foundation over the years, and he can survive it." Song Chen understands Song Hengyuan, when he succeeded to the throne, the whole Dalan was still a dilapidated scene of rivers and mountains, over the years, although he has gradually become rich, but it has always been his style to take precautions, so although this natural disaster is not optimistic, Song Hengyuan will never have no way to deal with it.

"And we're over here!" Based on his compassion for the people, Lin Jin solved the problem and helped, which was already the biggest gain for Song Hengyuan.

Song Chen's guess was not wrong, at this time, looking at the disaster reported from various places, Song Hengyuan thought of this idea in his heart. For a long time, he has treated Lin Jin with all kinds of courtesy, and in addition to being tied to Song Henghuan and Song Chen, it is also because he has always been on guard against the Eagle Country. Even if they don't stand up to help him, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is not to help outsiders. But through this incident, he knew that although Lin Jin and Su Miao did not express their position on weekdays, they were still standing next to him at a critical time. Although the disaster was not welcome, he was very excited by the feeling of seeing the truth of the tribulation. On the other hand, he greatly appreciated Lin Jin's judgment, at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, when the snowfall in the north and south was abnormal, he also had the worry that there would be natural disasters in his heart, and Song Henghuan wrote to him after the year, focusing on Lin Jin's words, and he didn't say a word at that time, so people secretly prepared. But at the time of the summer harvest, he saw that there was no abnormality at all, and he was wondering if he had overreacted, but he didn't expect that not long after this idea arose, the signs of this natural disaster appeared!

Song Heng is far less optimistic than Song Jin, or rather, he has much more experience than Song Jin, so he is not optimistic about ideas such as hitting the head of the snow mountain. He had long been prepared for a poor harvest this season. Ordinary farmers will prepare for the next season's grain, and after the harvest in these years, the grain merchant will also have a lot of grain, so he is still confident that he will survive a season's natural disasters. I am afraid that these grain merchants will want to make a fortune, and the price of grain will soar boundlessly, so that the people will not be able to afford it and cause resentment.

At the time of the summer harvest, although there were doubts about Lin Jin's judgment, the granaries of the treasury were still stuffed with grain, and there were cronies sent by several princes in various cities in the north, and they were also secretly doing similar things to Song Chen and them. If he can run a country in good order, can't he do business better than those unscrupulous businessmen?

Speaking of the Lily of the Valley City, since the rain has been falling for more than ten days, the Feng'an grain store has not earned any more food, on the one hand, everything that should be sold has been sold, on the other hand, it seems that many people have realized that something is wrong, and there is still excess at home, and they have kept it for standby. If you want to say that the most annoyed person in the whole Lily of the Valley City, it should be Jia Renfu, a month ago he died begging for nothing, so that Lin Jiu agreed to receive a large amount of rice from him, but he didn't expect that only a few days after the money and goods were paid, it began to rain for more than a month, this is going to be August, this rain has not yet stopped, although his land is all good land, the terrain is not low-lying, but it can't stand it like this, now everyone wants to lead the water to the river, but the canal is so big, everyone releases water, As a result, the speed of the water flow is getting slower and slower, and it is almost impossible to catch up with the speed of the rain and water accumulation. The stewards at the bottom came to him every day to report bad news, and he also went to the field himself to see it two or three times, and he regretted dying when he looked at the rice field, if the more than 10,000 stones of rice were still there, why was he so worried? Doubling the price at that time is equivalent to planting two crops. (To be continued.) )